Defendant Marcello Dell'Utri looks on during the trial where Mafia informant Gaspare Spatuzza was due to give testimony in Turin December 4, 2009. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
ROME (Reuters) - Beirut police on Saturday picked up a long-time political ally and friend of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi after he was declared a fugitive earlier this week.
A Palermo court said on Friday that former senator Marcello Dell'Utri, who co-founded Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1994, was considered a fugitive ahead of a final verdict in a trial for mafia collusion, due on Tuesday.
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